Background: A 71-year-old woman presented with severe chest pain after an episode of acute emotional distress. Her serum levels of cardiac enzymes were slightly elevated and electrocardiography ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA — Active marijuana use was associated with a twofold increased risk of takotsubo syndrome, also called stress cardiomyopathy and characterized by transient left-ventricular apical ...

Passing quietly away from sheer heartbreak is a trope that pops up in myth and fantasy. In the Star Wars universe, Padmé Amidala may have died of a broken heart after her husband turned to the dark ...

It's often mistaken for a heart attack, but Takotsubo cardiomyopathy—previously known as Broken Heart syndrome—is a serious and sometimes fatal heart condition increasingly reported in intensive care ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, is a sudden stress-induced heart condition. It is not a heart attack but can cause similar symptoms. Underlying heart disease does not ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a reversible disease of the heart muscle that is suddenly weakened or stunned following a physical or an emotional event. In this condition, a part of the heart enlarges ...

Patients with Takotsubo syndrome are most likely to die from a cardiovascular cause over the long term, with an overall mortality risk approaching that of patients who have had an acute MI, according ...

The specific mechanism remains unclear and the scope of the problem is still unknown, but something about the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be causing an uptick in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, clinicians on ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is also known as also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy, broken-heart syndrome or apical-ballooning syndrome and occurs with a sudden increase in sympathetic nervous ...

Feel free to cry over a pint of ice cream — but it’s not what’s going to mend your broken heart. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy — commonly known as broken heart syndrome — is a very real condition that is ...

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, Also Called “Broken-Heart Syndrome” In short, the stress seems to trigger a surge of catecholamines which acts upon the myocardium in a variety of ways to reduce the ...